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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Sea Dogs Summoned To League Hearing

The Saint John Sea Dogs announced this morning via press
release that the team has been summoned to hearing to discuss the Ryan Tesink
trade that went down on January 2.

Here’s what the release said:

The Saint John Sea Dogs announced today the team has been
summoned to a hearing to discuss the deal that sent Ryan Tesink to the
Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in exchange for the Sea Dogs’ own 2013 1st-round
pick.

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is hosting the
hearing in Montreal on Monday to discuss the case put forward by the Armada.

“We have always made the health and safety of our players
a top priority,” says Sea Dogs President Wayne Long. “We will be reiterating
our point on Monday, but ultimately this is a league matter.”

Tesink did quite well in his first two games with the
Armada, recording a goal and three assists. He went pointless in his next four
games and has not played since. He hasn’t been in action since January 13.

The Armada seem to think that the Sea Dogs were aware
of Tesink’s injury prior to the trade, which would be strange since he was playing regularly with Saint John before being dealt. Tesink then played in six games with the
Armada and – I would hope – they wouldn’t have played him if he wasn’t healthy. So, how are the Armada sure he wasn’t injured in one of those games? And Tesink had knee
surgery last season, so obviously there was risk involved in trading for him.

Bizarre situation. Not really sure what would happen if
the Sea Dogs lost this case, but it would be devastating if they had to send
their first-round pick back to Blainville-Boisbriand.

Hopefully this ends better than the Maxime Villemaire
situation last season.